Steven P

So happy you brought that insight into the conversation. Well done.

Could have been - read that when I was still at school, a while ago...

I forget the book - think it was one of the Red Dwarf spin offs - Humans have colonised space, and need a garbage dump planet, Earth lost because of the damage done to it, might as well complete the job and kill it off. Trash it and move on.

Too slow, was about to say "big log blown away" (reminds me, going out to do some goblin later, just a small ash today, couple of barrows full, 1/2 mile walking tops in total but it keeps me active (tricky vehicle access), a days firewood)

A couple of educated guesses: Syria isn't going to go well, sorry, it is going to continue to be bad. A lot of asylum seekers / refugees from all the other conflicts in the area and a handy route into Turkey are going to see a lot of displaced people fleeing for their lives, probably arn't going to go back south into Iraq / Lebanon... So the EU might to step in to calm things down (politically asylum seekers are 'bad' in Europe politics)... but the potential for Russia and The Ukraine to ramp up again in the spring might make them reluctant to commit resources (how convenient for Russia... a friend of Syria... divide and conquer). US... that is a bit of a wildcard, Trump doesn't like wars, tricky to save face with (and he doesn't have any business interests there), not sure if Biden will step in this side of Christmas and send troops out there - that never sounds good. So without big outside influence, the current regime is likely to fall quite quickly and will be sorted out within the country rather than the west meddling. Just my guess, but it is a an unstable region of the world.

Remind me one day to post a link on internet security, how much and relevance of personal information you should consider posting online. Quiet enlightening when I dig it out. Surprised you haven't been trained to death on these things. You've certainly done the being a bore training.

Likewise, but a bit more to the right than you (still that quarter though). Interesting quiz thing

Yup, your right - had to check, it is IOS 15 or earlier not iphone 15 or earlier (phones don't excite me as they used to, yet to be sold on any app that would make my life better apart from maybe satnav, so might be forgiven for getting it wrong a little)

All in my head... perhaps you should look over your posts you make here and in POTUS thread, perhaps sort them into 4 piles "Positive posts about the left of centre politics (essentially Labour, SNP)" "Positive Posts about the right of centre politics (Conservative, Reform, UKIP)" "Negative posts about left of centre" and "Negative posts about right of centre". Perhaps include US politics as well since they interest you. If you don't think your political posts are trying to sell an agenda these piles might help you understand how we see you. Knowing you won't and your reply is likely to be a 'distraction' ie off the current topic and probably cheap digs / insults I could give you a hint. +ve posts about the left and -ve posts about the right are in short supply from you.

the narrative you are trying to push that only the very right wing of UK (and world) politics has anything worthy of government (pretty much Farage and Trump), anyone else is not to be trusted. Your original wording had a hint of gloating "wahoo, Farage might get some funding from an overseas billionaire".... but now, this is not a good thing? Which is it? (Noting that last nights Question Time Farage has denied that this £100 million is a possibility) "You are gonna need some big buckets to catch the tears of the left if he does it. Not like labour wanting to move the goalposts 🤷‍♂️bit rich quite frankly seeing how much old spendy Ali paid out. All those cosy nights playing dress up with 2TK in his penthouse." Also to note the 'Cheap Dig' you replied to me with.... again....

You're not going to get an answer to that, such a thing would go against the narrative he is trying to sell.

My take on US conspiracy things is "what did the Russians say".... effectively gave up on that part of the space race and said "Well done"... so either they believed the US or they had a lot of telescopes pointed at the moon to have a look see what was happening. Moon was over Australia when they landed, so am sure they would have mentioned it too if they weren't getting the radio messages back. So far all the conspiracies have never answered why the Russians accepted that there was a moon landing. Why they never went back? (google failed me for a couple of lines here...) Florida's horrider than Whitley Bay No McEwan's Export in the USA The bars are packed tighter than tins of sardines (image: our heroes boarding a space shuttle) No room for barmaids with all these machines This is Geordies calling Houston, can you send us up some drinks? (image: our heroes have landed on the Moon) There's no McEwan's Export and the local beer stinks (something), (something) no atmosphere The States? Nice place, shame about the beer

If I was closer I would give it a go just to amuse you that it went!

7.75

Do you have a maximum budget? Difference in price is about £300? which is the 200 + a couple of batteries. Slightly less power but more cutting time? How much do you expect to cut in a day?

Just use it like a normal saw (about 1:25 in to see that advanced technique)

There was a thing last night, think it was whatsapps are stopping support for iphone 15 I think it is. just in case your new phone is an old phone, it is worth checking what will run or not

there is a reason I've never posted on the cooking thread!

Often thought about that simple printer, MuckyDs wrappers auto printed the car reg from the camera - think you could do the same with other stuff but... not sure they'd get away with that. The children thing is a god idea though!

I've looked at this a couple of times, replace the blanket with foil and it looks ready for a couple of hours at gas mark 6!

Trail cam might not be useable by the authorities unless you also put up a notice warning that CCTV is in operation - it might give them enough to know to hang out there at say 5:20 on a Friday evening but even with clear faces, reg plates and so on, no warning means the footage can't be used. Had a similar good story the other week, some fly tipping I'd reported (too much for me to put in the car) had some addresses, originator owned up and was set a fine, good news was the council man said since he had fessed up, no need for me to go to court to be a witness! Serious stuff.

Likewise, similar 1/4 mile walk from the house except mine is MuckyDs wrappers and Costa cups (and one block who discards his cigarette box every other day). What annoys me is the litter bin is about 5m from where they throw the packaging out the window, fag packet I suspect comes from one of the workers at the yard down the road.

Good money inchip...

Sounds like the above was true and 6 months seasoning isn't enough for oak... 2 years is better. I assume you are storing it outside or somewhere with a good airflow at that too - a mostly sealed garage will get damp inside for example, difference in air moisture and log moisture is reduced and drying speed slows. Don't stack drying logs to close together either, the stacks need air gaps for air flow. Last comment, taking a bucket of logs off the top of a wood pile will also take last weeks rain with it, taken from the middle might give better results.... but you'll knock the wood pile over trying to get them.

I wasn't going to respond, however if you post posts as bait but cannot take the replies - noting you were getting increasingly agitated last night when we did reply - then perhaps.. just a suggestion... perhaps stop playing silly games and posting links as 'bait' (however I don't believe you did post about Trump as bait, I believe it was your sex-abuser hero worship coming out). I'll also note that for a couple of weeks you didn't post in this thread and there was a marked decrease in aggression and bad humour too. Coincidence? But the take away from that, posting links as bait is bad form in a generally friendly forum. Take note, and have a good week.